From The New York Daily News…
Ex-cop sues NYPD, claims race and sex bias, says boss didn’t like ‘women because they have babies’
By Thomas Zambito
Daily News Staff Writer
A former NYPD sergeant says her dream of rising through the ranks ended when she was assigned to a boss who didn’t take kindly to her showing up for work pregnant.
Tamara Golston-Green sued the NYPD and Capt. John Denesopolis for race and sex discrimination in Queens Supreme Court on Monday.
“‘I just don’t like women because they have babies,’” the lawsuit charges Denesopolis told Golston-Green shortly after she joined his staff in September 2004.
Golston-Green says she was forced off the job two years later after being assigned an overnight shift in a Queens housing unit while she had two young children at home.
“He was the one who made it impossible for my dream to continue,” she said during an interview on Tuesday.
The Springfield Gardens High School grad said in the seven years before working for Denesopolis she enjoyed every assignment she held.
Golston-Green, 36, has since moved from Queens Village to Texas, where she works in reservations for a major airline.
“Going to work was a nightmare which caused her to have panic attacks and be very emotional driving there,” lawyer Anthony Ofodile writes in the lawsuit.
“The torture just got worse,” he adds.
The lawsuit says Denesopolis became enraged at Golston-Green after scanning an entry log one morning.
“‘I am not going to hold your hand and sing ‘Kum-bah-yah,’” the lawsuit quotes Denesopolis as saying.
City attorneys declined comment because they had not yet seen the lawsuit.
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